Hey what's up? I recently downloaded Links 2.0. I run an mp3 site and I wanted to use it with the Amazon rating mod to allow users to rate their favorite songs...I have a couple of questions.

1) I already have a website made with all 720+ links to songs. Is there any way I can bring these links into my Links 2.0 directory without having to retype them?

2) Is it possible to mass modify my links? Right now I'm hosting all of my mp3s off of my ip address. Should my ip address change would I have to modify each and every link one by one?

3) Is there any way to protect my links from other sites? So people can't link directly to my mp3s?

Thank you for your time.
- P.J.

1) Use the Bulkload Mod posted in the Resource Center (click on Resources in the top of the forum web pages). OR use MS Access or Excel, then export the database/spreadsheet as a tab delimited flat text file. Search the Links 2.0 Customization and Links 2.0 Discussion forums for Offline editing.

2) What I would recommend doing is in the URL field...is use the /directory/file.mp3. Then in the link.html file, use the following codes:



You will have to delete the valid expression codes in the valid expression column of the URL field in the %db_def hash in the links.def file.

3) Nope...HTML is an open source language meaning that anyone can grab the URLs from your site and put them in another directory. If you are concerned about this, I would recommend exploring cloaking options. Search the Web for cloaking software.

Regards,

Eliot Lee